Free Day Not So Free!

As our trip comes to an end, we woke up to experience our second free day. During our free day we had a lot of free time to explore the city of Riobamba. Some of you may know that this is not completely a leisure trip but an opportunity to help the community we have...

Learning About Education and Politics

Today’s topics were education and politics. After breakfast, we headed back to the hostel and started a mental warm up. This mental warm up consisted of a discussion about the statistics of the education in Ecuador. The top three barriers to education in Ecuador...


Living Like a Local

Good evening family and Friends. I am Sedeq Ahmed and I was the ELDD of today. Today we learned that  no matter how high the mountain is we can over come it as a team. Today we saw our whole team over come this huge obstacle. We learned never to give up even if our...

Adventure of the Andes

Today was that day, that day we will look back and say “I haven’t been this proud of myself in a long time.” This was the day that we were all looking forward to; however, we had doubts. It all started the night before; we had our first free day on...